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Treating advanced prostate cancer with radiation and hormone-blocking drugs cut the death rate in half in [...]

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Drugs used by millions of patients to control epileptic seizures must carry warnings about heightened risks of suicide, federal regulators said Tuesday.
The Food and Drug Administration announcement comes almost a year after the agency first said patients taking the drugs have a slightly higher risk for suicide than those taking dummy pills.
According to the new [...]

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A woman so horribly disfigured she was willing to risk her life to do something about it has undergone the nation’s first near-total face transplant, the Cleveland Clinic announced Tuesday. Reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow and a team of other specialists replaced 80 percent of the woman’s face with that of a female cadaver a [...]

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Older people who want to stay sharp should reconsider the notion that video games are only for lazy children and pick up a joystick themselves, a new study suggests.
While past studies have shown that playing video games has many positive benefits, ranging from improved problem-solving abilities in young people to improved [...]

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Peanut and other food allergies are on the rise, with more and more children being diagnosed with potentially life-threatening allergies, and schools are responding by providing nut-free areas.
But, at least one expert wonders if schools are going too far, even creating hysteria over potential nut exposures. What’s worse, schools may [...]

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A too-fast heartbeat in early adulthood is a warning sign for increased risk of cardiovascular problems decades later on, a Japanese study suggests.
The study of 614 residents of a rural farming community in southwestern Japan found that a heart rate greater than 80 beats a minute during a first examination in [...]

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Traumatic brain injury
may lead to an increased risk of developing symptoms like those of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other disorders, a panel of experts said on Thursday.
A committee of the Institute of Medicine, which provides advice to U.S. policymakers, reviewed studies on the consequences of the kind of brain injuries that thousands of U.S. [...]

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There’s no mammogram or Pap smear for Alzheimer’s disease. Yet an Alzheimer’s group this week begins a push for simple memory screenings in a bid to catch possible warning signs of dementia sooner.
Memory screenings — five-minute mini-tests, doable at a health fair — are hugely controversial. But the provocative new report from the Alzheimer’s Foundation [...]

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Children who were given the steroid dexamethasone after a tonsillectomy had less nausea and vomiting, but they also faced an increased risk of bleeding that was significant enough to end the trial early for safety reasons, a new study shows.
 
“The clinical implication is that children undergoing [tonsillectomy] should not receive dexamethasone prophylactically unless an adequately [...]

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Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs don’t interfere with rituximab, a medication used to treat lymphomas, say Mayo Clinic researchers, who also found that statins may actually slow progression of some kinds of lymphomas.
 
Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody often used alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy to treat lymphomas — cancers of the lymph system. A study published [...]

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